"variable abbreviation"	Variable name	Measurement
"deu_duration"	Legislative duration	The number of days between the European Commission comes up with a proposal and proposal is adopted into legislation.
"duration1"	Legislative duration	The number of months between the European Commission comes up with a proposal and proposal is adopted into legislation.
"duration2"	legislative duration 	The number of months from opinion of European Parliament on the first reading to the legislative procedure ends
"intraconflict"	Intra-institutional conflict on EU legislative proposal: conflict within the Council	Whether the proposal only has an A-item on the Council agenda? 1 = yes, 0 = no
"aitems"	Preference homogeneity of member states	The number of A items mentioned in agenda of Council meetings
"bitems"	Preference heterogeneity of member states  	The number of B items mentioned in agenda of Council meeting
"hetero.sta"	Preference heterogeneity among stakeholders	The stakeholders hold divergent preferences: which is calculated as the weighted sum of squared differences between individual actors and the pooled stakeholders
"sta.sup(number)"	Stakeholders support (numbers)	Number of stakeholders mobilized on each issue hold positive opinions towards legislative proposal.
"sta.opp (number)"	Stakeholders opposition (numbers)	Number of stakeholders mobilized on each issue hold negative opinions towards legislative proposal.
"sta.sup(percentage)"	Stakeholders support (percentage)	Percentage of stakeholders mobilized on each issue hold positive opinions towards legislative proposal.
"sta.opp (percentage)"	Stakeholders opposition (percentage)	Percentage of stakeholders mobilized on each issue hold negative opinions towards legislative proposal.
"interconflict"	Inter-institutional conflict on EU legislative proposal: Conflict between the EP and the Council	Is the act agreed upon in conciliation/third reading? 1 = yes, 0 = no
"epconflict"	Conflict with the EP	Is the act agreed upon unanimously in the responsible EP committee? 0 = yes, 1 = no
"saliency"	Saliency of EU legislative proposals	Saliency at the national level in the eyes of MEPs: Number of times act is mentioned in plenary/committee debates/written reports in the lower house of the national parliament
"con.duration"	consultation duration	The date the consultation opened until the deadline for submitting contributions